Robolectric: androidTest assets not picked up

[PaulWoitaschek]

Description

I use Room and try to test my db locally using robolectric.
In room you can specify the schema export by

  sourceSets {
    androidTest.assets.srcDirs += files("$projectDir/schemas".toString())
  }

However these assets are not picked up by robolectric and the android.arch.persistence.room.testing.MigrationTestHelper fails because it does not find the schema in the assets.

Robolectric & Android Version

4.0.0-alpha2
Android 27

[PaulWoitaschek]

I found a workaround.

Using test.assets.srcDirs did not work, but adding them to debug.assets.srcDirs worked.

[jongerrish]

I'm going to close this. Android Studio now has first class support for Robolectric (merges and compiles resources in your deps). I don't think it supports assets in the tests folder however but if you'd like that please open an issue on the google tracker for Android Studio

[free5ty1e]

If you want to utilize these assets to unit test your release build(s) as well, release.assets.srcDirs does the trick. Thanks!